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The giveaway for me would've been, Punk wouldn't have thanked anyone.

Well that clears things up

Billy Corgan's office.

No, but Otunga's there!

Only if they talk New Jack out of retirement and book them together in an Extreme Rules match.

That's bizarre.

Wouldn't that make it WAY to easy to fix a game/shave points too? Why do you think he's proposing it?

Reached for comment, Delirious said, "Babababa babababa!" Clears everything up for me.

I want a WWE Network show where Regal and Bryan go around the world solving crimes as magicians.

Counterpoint: Rollins sucks.

Maybe Julie drank the wrong orange juice back in the day.

A LL Bean wannabe

When personal foul = D lineman swats at a pass, misses and glances Tom Brady's helmet, then Brady cries enough that the ref throws a flag just to stop the temper tantrum, this is a bad rule.

That moment when you realize that is not the opponent with red hair you want in the ring with you "Hurray! Godzilla has run Gigan and King Ghidorah out of the city! OH SHIT! GODZILLA IS LOOSE IN THE CITY!"

WELCOME TO YOUR DEATH VALLEY DRIVERETTE~! for 02122016! Here ya go. ~!~ BIG JAPAN PRO WRESTLING- 1/24/2016-[RASMUSSEN] These three. ATSUSHI AOKI/ DAISUKE SEKIMOTO vs DAICHI HASHIMOTO/ KAZUKI HASHIMOTO: This is the new thing Big Japan is doing these days- taking three guys you know and inserting a third guy you vaguely know about but you aren't really sure. I know I've seen Aoki wrestle before in NOAH but I have no earthly idea who he is if you just put the name up there. Ah NOAH, how I have skipped over so much of you. As I gaze at Aoki's cagematch.net profile, I note that he has wrestled all over the world and in every major promotion in Japan- including 30ish matches in New Japan, 300 in All Japan and 700 in NOAH- but this his first year ever to wrestle in Big Japan. I assume this is from the eternal collapse of All Japan. Daichi Hashimoto moves one pound closer to Total Shinya every week, and I must say that it is very thrilling to watch. For those new to the world of Japanese wrestling, Kazuki Hashimoto and Daisuke Sekimoto are Big Japan Strong Style guys who will beat the living doghsit out of you. I am excited. Let's watch. Pre-match Aoki and Sekimoto talk about things and then I wonder if Cagematch.net could develop a way to cross-reference wrestlers, because Sekimoto wrestles 170 times a year, for any promotion on earth that will provide his guarantee, transportation and a raw deli platter- so the odds are good that if this tag team has 4,000ish matches between them, they had to have carpooled together to one of those Real Japan cards at some point and maybe, just maybe, became friends. But actually, if they were friends, it seems like Sekimoto would hook him up with more BJPW gigs, as Big Japan draws actual people while All Japan draws whoever is still working overtime at the particular warehouse they are running that day. But I really digress. Aoki and Kazuki Hashimoto start off the proceedings punching each other in the face. Man, don't tell me I have back and watch 3,000 Atsushi Aoki matches. Aoki does a fun stunned face when you elbow him in the face. After 15 seconds in with Daichi Hashimoto, he kind of stumbles into his corner with a "I'm too old for this stuff" face and Sekimoto tags in and Aoki rolls out the ring to the floor (possibly to get in his car and go home. Which would be hilarious. ((But he doesn't really- Dean after watching the whole match.))) Sekimoto and Daichi trade armbars and wristlocks and sleepers and shoulderblocks as they build up to the Strong Style aspects of the match- which would naturally lead to a Greco-Roman fingerlock into both of them beating the hell out of each other. Sekimoto succumbs to the beating and thus takes full brunt and fury of Team Yamato in all of its majestic kickiness. Aoki stands on the apron watching the leather fly, saying, "Better you than me. I got 13 matches in 13 garages next week." Aoki tags and slaps Kazuki a few times and hits a DDT and tags out. I'm digging the cameo aspect of Aoki's part in this. "Hey man, you work here I'm just visiting. I'm not gonna get all up your business." Sekimoto and Kazuki pulverize each other with chops and forearms and they get progressively more spectacular until Kazuki lands a lariat and tags in Daichi to give Sekimoto the full measure of his manly offense. Aoki is on the apron, "I'm right here for you, buddy" as Daichi kicks Sekimoto's Adam's Apple out of the back of his neck. After several more assorted kicks, Sekimoto tries to TRANSITION to offence with an Argentinian backbreak but Daichi counters into a sleeper that causes Daisuke Sekimoto to FEEL the VIBRATIONS of the Spirit of Nelson Royal as he hits the picture perfect Atomic Drop. Daichi Hashimoto feels the GLOW of POSSESSION as the spirit of Dick Murdock takes over and he does the "OW! MY HINEY!" fit on the mat. It's pretty great and a fabulously strange foray out of Strong Style. Aoki clocks in and gets in a really nice one footed dropkick and then does the same as Daichi is sitting up on the mat. Daichi counters a suplex attempt with a DDT and tags in Kazuki who kicks Aoki in the face and then brainbusts the visitor. Double Hashimotos then take turns kicking him until Sekimoto makes the save with a Spear and truly monstrous EXPLOIDER Suplex. Aoki tries to seal the deal by hitting as much as he can on Kazuki- Missile Dropkick, a QUALITY Dangerous Backdrop. Kazuki fires back with kicks and Aoki does the old man headbutt after a kick to Kazuki Hashimoto's face. Kazuki then fucking lays a kick directly and deeply into Aoki's teeth and then hits a TOTAL Daisuke Ikeda-level Death Valley Bomb to just fucking crush Aoki for the win. Jesus, Aoki takes a break from Akebono landing on him and SUWAMA lariating his skull into the forklift over there just to take the nastiest finisher in Big Japan Strong Style history. Aoki, you are my new boy. Yeah, you should watch this. http://rutube.ru/video/bc662ad860313a840db22c00291cfb22/?pl_type=user&pl_id=1067514 HIDEYOSHI KAMITANI/ KOHEI SATO/ SHUJI ISHIKAWA vs HIDEKI SUZUKI/ SEIYA SANADA/ YOSHIHISA UTO: When I first saw the line-up for this match I thought to myself, "Why are doing the Japanese equivalent of the SST and the Samoan Savage against the Ding-Dongs and Lee Scott? I'm against it. I'm just confused" Then I started watching the match and realized that Hideki Suzuki is that Wrestle-1 guy who is actually the ZERO-1 champ- thus the reason he and Kohei Sato are in the same match. But yeah, wee Sanada and Uto the Rookie are there to be beaten to a pulp. Which I can get behind. This ain't no Sunday school. Sanada has a fancy outfit, like he should one of those ROH tagteams that wrestle for the New Japan Junior Tag Titles and who bounce off the second rope for every move. Kamitani tries to SHOWBOAT the Big Japan Strong tag title to deflect from the fact that the Twin Towers really do tower over everybody else in the ring. He also seems delighted that he isn't receiving end of a Kohei Sato ass-beating. Uto, not so lucky. Sanada and Kamitani start the match- and one would assume that Sanada will try to WRESTLE wrestle Kamitani for as long as possible, staying away from Kohei Sat and Shuji Ishikawa and thus feeding his teammates to the alligators so he can live longer and wake the next day with far less wiggly teeth. Suzuki is the Z-1 champ from W-1 so he and Sato go all Shoot Style in this Strong Style-branded match, with Suzuki trying to procure as many Volk Han-isms as he can. Sato fights out them and they do the shoot style lounging kneebars routine. Sato stomps the ham string and they officially start beating on each other until Suzuki hilariously tags in Uto. Uto visually conveys "What... what WHAT?" as Kohei Sato welcomes him to the world by laughing at his headbutts and front chancellorys him to tag Shuji Ishikawa- Japan's Greatest Living Crowbar. Uto does a few seconds of attempted armwringing- as if to say, "YEAH! That'll work! We'll do an armwringer and that way he w..." Ishikawa crushes his face with a forearm. Uto tries to put on his big boy pant and FIRES BACK! Ishikawa crushes his face with a forearm. Kamitani tags in and Uto takes a far more reasonable Big Japan Strong Style ass-beating. Then Koehi Sato tags back in and Uto's desperate forays into FIGHTING SPIRIT are met with indifferent crushing kicks to the chest. And then Ishikawa tags in and mercifully merely rips Uto vertebra apart slightly with a half crab. Kamitani hits him with several dozen shoulders in the corner to set-up a JUDO FLIP for two! Uto has the hilarious look on his face of a man arguing with a lady at the DMV as Kohei Sato tags in and Uto tries to somehow kill the giant grizzly bear with his switches of chops to he chest. Kohei the grizzly doesn't die, but he does begin the just fucking endless assbeating that Uto contines to absorb. Kamitani comes off the toprope to accentuate the Inverted Falcon Arrow that Kohei lands; and Kamitani has the look on his face of absolute glee of being on the Twins Towers tagteam and getting to just throw in little things after they have fucking destroyed an opponent. It's like being the placekicker for 1985 Bears. Uto kicks out and Kohei is amazed at the rookie's toughness/stupidity. Suzuki tags in after Uto gets in a forearm and it's back to a regular wrestling match. Jesus. Ishikawa just fucking CRUSHES Suzuki's face with a forearm to set up a wad of Twin Towers power moves until Suzuki dropkicks to tag in Sanada who picks up on the dropkick theme by hitting a lot of dropkicks on Ishikawa. It's as if to say, "I'm 32 and a veteran. They can't just beat me to a pulp because I'm 150 pounds! MY OFFENSE! IT SUCKS! SO WHAT!?!" Sanada goes for a German and they spin around until Sanada procures the Octapus hold- then everybody gets Held By The Octapus! Sanada does the hilarious thing of remembering that this is a Strong Style so he just tries to trade forearms with Shuji Ishikawa. You laugh. I laugh. Everyone laughs. Except Sanada. Sanada gets crushed by a forearm. But he does trade a couple and gets in a dropkick to the knee that he probably should have opened with. Kamitani tags and decides that he should prove his worth by mauling the fresh guy like the Towers mauled Uto, starting with a RW Hawk Shoulder block off the top rope. Sanada fights off the Dangerous Backdrop and hits a rana to allow him to tag UTO~! So I think we all know where this is heading. Uto hits a high knee and leg drop and then a really good brainbuster for two. They triple team Kamitani with Suzuki hitting a sweet backbreaker to set up Uto's Guillotine Legdrop! Not the awesome onee with a forward flip but still a Guillotine for two. Then an ACTUAL Lariat for two! Kamitani hits a shoulderblock after ducking a second lariat. The Twin Towers come in a beat the fuck out of Uto for a minute to set-up Kamitani's Nodowa. KAmitani does the magnificent EVEREST Backdrop for the win! Your big winner... UTO! For the sweet batch of finishers at the end. And Sanada for not coming off as a wuss and for instigating a "trading of elbows to the face" section with a guy who will knock all your teeth out. Postmatch, Shuji Ishikawa and Hideki Suzuki call each other pussies and I'm a-hoping they settle it in a Z-1 ring that is captured and uploaded to the internet. Very fun. You should watch. http://rutube.ru/video/d894f4a34bfea127e264d3ad8215c8ab/?pl_type=user&pl_id=1067514 YUJI OKABAYASHI vs RYOTA HAMA: HOLY SHIT, IS THIS AWESOME. MORE MONDAY. http://rutube.ru/video/bf5df99fbea233234831d4ff0c2f78e1/?pl_type=user&pl_id=1067514 TOMORROW: Is Saturday! I prolly won;t write anything! Watch that Okabayashi/Hama match though. It is fucking MANLY.

Is there ANYONE in the NBA that D-Fish isn't Eskimo Brothers with?

Dammit. My niece Bailey was just born, hence the confusion.

I'm on board. Can we start some crowdfunding?

Counterpoint: Rollins sucks. You suck. Your wrestling opinions are mostly awful and yet you are SO sure of yourself. It's such a shitty combination of traits. I will elaborate more in March.

Which will be more than half the people voting...

I'm going to have a shit-ton of trouble not spoiling the line, at work tomorrow.

Arlington and about 20 other indistinguishable neighboring cities all combine to form the singular hellhole that is "Dallas."

Panthers signed a punter named Swayze Waters. I only know he's a CFL guy but Swayze Waters is immediately in the running for best name ever.

Maybe we should rename March Madness into the Annual Daniel Bryan Cesaro Tournament.

If she got high and ruined a ppv main event, they'd have given her a title run.

And then they say Owens powerbombed Sami for no reason... Well, obviously he did because that's El Generico.

Yeah - people need to stop with the photos and make with the fan cams

Nonboliever.

Special orange juice isn't for the front entrance, gents

What from his singles matches would you recommend? Is much available for free online? I remember a couple of years ago folk were talking him up so I watched a couple of his matches and didn't think he was very good at all, like some US super indy tribute act. Thought the team with Dante worked well though. Watch his matches in PWG or the PROGRESS SSS16 match against Roderick Strong or the wxw 16 Carat Gold final against Axel Dieter Jr. His tag matches with Chris Hero at the last weekend of EVOLVE shows have also been getting rave reviews, but I haven't seen them yet. There's very little online. Here's what I could find on the quick. The SSB match is very good:

Well, Saturn is questionable. First Smackdown I have watched in maybe a year. Loved the AJ/Jericho match, Mauro was great and Lawler is fucking horrible as the contrarian heel. Heels work when they have a point. Lawler is just saying shit just to say it. I really hope the Dudleys turn leads to something because I loved that promo. I think AJ will be fine. I was way more upset over Kevin Owens losing to Ziggler again than this. WWE always does this by testing guys they didn't create. I'm fine with AJ losing to Jericho in a match that actually builds to a rubber match where he could then move on. Owens has to beat Dolph just to get back to where he already was in the first place. And on a side note, in the infamous RAW thread where several people got banned, in my anger at those people, I took some shots at Gregg that were a bit uncalled for, so I am publicly apologizing. You are good people. I rarely agree with you, but I respect your defense of your convictions.

- Jericho and Styles as an almost equally douchy, hive-inducing tagteam might work. If only AJ could cut a promo like Slater... As far as the Outcasts are concerned, I'm convinced they're what Vince wanted New Day to be except they managed to get themselves over, so he had to do his own version. Nothing against them but I can totally see him doing that. - The Dudleys as heels are the only way I ever want to see them. Bubba is just so damn punchable being an asshole to the crowd. - Okay so BAD broke up because Sasha is Sasha, at least that makes sense. It still plays up to the WWE trope of "bitches are crazy and can't be friends" but Sasha wants to be/is BOSS so there's that, plus Tamina and Naomi stayed together. Naomi gets all Finlay with it stepping on the fingers and the neck and is this a good little match. Stiff, great execution... honestly this was fantastic. Tamina eats a mean Yakuza Kick too. I bet the Fastlane tag is gonna be one to watch out for. I'm Yakuza Kicking myself for not having seen all the great NXT women's matches you guys have. - They let AJ do a promo! He says he's a proud redneck. Go figure. Something is up with that man's facial complexion. Also, a coherent Wyatt promo, and everybody gets a chance to speak. The eye-roll wasn't very good but the words made up for it. - The jobbers vs. high flyers 6-man lasts all of about two minutes; King is heeling on commentary because...? - Danielson, we're grateful too. They shouldn't show that again though unless they air the entire 20 minutes somewhere I can watch it. My tear ducts need a break. (Uh oh, I forgot about my friend's Hulu subscription...) - King is right about AJ's haircut at least. He goes full-on Japan with a forearm to Jericho (which they have to replay, it's so stiff) that he sells like a gunshot and Jericho responds in kind. His corner dropkick makes AJ bounce off the apron about a foot in the air to the outside. They just paste into each other the rest of the time and honestly, have a great match. Aging ornery Jericho is great. At the end he's holding his face like his orbital bone got cracked; he probably hasn't been in a match that brutal since WAR days. There's no way this makes AJ looks bad either and it really deserves a rubber match. I can't believe they actually got me into a match with Jericho, who I'm completely irritated with, and Styles, who I don't like on general principal. Very good work, boys and girls. Hell of a Smackdown.

Nice backhanded compliment, did Marvel not give you permission to say it's a good trailer?

Forget anyone in New Japan or NXT - @WWESubway should win Rookie of the Year in the WON awards this year.

I want a WWE Network show where Regal and Bryan go around the world solving crimes as magicians.

Now you've gotten me all hot and bothered for Coach Kobe next year.

Today's the 13th anniversary of Curt Hennig's passing. Nice to know that if he were alive, thirty years younger, and breaking into WWE today, he would have lasted about 45 minutes.

Guys, remember when Okada lost to Hiro Saito two weeks after he returned to NJPW?

Caps off an extremely dismal UFC run where he underperformed severely: http://www.mmafighting.com/2016/2/10/10959806/konstantin-erokhin-tests-positive-for-drostanolone-at-the-ultimate At least Guto Inocente can say he never failed a drug test.

Twitter, apparently. UH UH! Some people don't have Twitter, and never have "Idiots."

The promo Naomi cut on Paige about how the latter always gets chances at the Divas Championship was hot. She's one of the best talkers in the division. Her as the unofficial first lady of The Roman Empire would be great. She can go around terrorizing everyone because she's got her cousin by marriage's protection--give me that story. The only major thing I'd change about Naomi is her finisher. Unless you're her father-in-law, butt-based offense isn't the way to go. Find something flashy and high-impact, and she'll be in good shape.

You've given that far too much credit.

Congrats. You just summed up almost 20 years of comic books in two sentences. That's pretty much all there's ever been to Deadpool and his various comic series. I'm guessing you haven't read much of Duggan's Deadpool.

"Being A White, College-Educated Millenial Sure Is Hard"

Damnit, Gregg! I just started my journey back through Teenage Fanclub albums and now I need to find my copy of Judgement Night too. Totally on the Teenage Fanclub tip, it is amusing now that Bandwagonesque has gone from being considered overrated (Spin's album of the year in 1991) to now criminally underrated. It's a legit pop masterpiece that I think only Gregg and I love now.

Although it pains my soul to agree with Big Fresh ( ), I had trouble getting into the last TEW also. It felt more like work and less like play, and I like sims normally. Hopefully this next one keeps the same flavor but doesn't go even bigger.